https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills/zbc4y9q
This site contains different audio activities and sound games that you can listen to and play with your children.
Sound Awareness
BBC Teach School Radio EYFS: Listen and Play.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listen-and-play-index/zrrvhbk
The episodes on this website are all designed to support speech and language development in Nursery and Reception children.
Further information and guidance is available at the bottom of the page.
Sound awareness – listening activities.
You can help to develop your child’s sound awareness by listening to different sounds and words.
‘Andy’s Sound Adventures’ on CBeebies Radio has a number of programmes that you can listen to along with your child. Listen out for and copy the sounds that the different animals and birds make.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/radio-andys-sound-adventures
EYFS Music: Sonic Explorers on the BBC Teach website also has several videos:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/eyfs-sonic-explorers/zhmvnrd
as does the BBC Teach School Radio site:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listen-and-play-early-learning-themes-tales/zffh7nb
iSpy Sound Detective podcasts are also available for slightly older children.
Initial and final /s/ blends.
Here are some resources for practising /s/ blends at the front and end of words.
This website has lots of speech sound resources:
Sound Awareness – Rhyming Words and Nursery Rhymes.
We can help to develop a child’s sound or phonological awareness by listening to rhyming words, songs or nursery rhymes. Listening to rhyming words helps children to hear the different sounds in a word and to notice any similarities between words that rhyme.
Here are some videos to help you:
The BookTrust website also has a wide range of nursery rhymes that you can listen to.
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/rhymes/
Sound awareness – Syllable Clapping.
Clapping out the syllables in a word can help children to hear the different sounds in a word.
Here are two videos demonstrating how to do this.
Tiny Happy People
Another website to help support language development in young children.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/activities/zjh8hbk
This website is full of ideas and activities to help develop your child’s language through play. There are also lots of nursery rhymes and songs that you can sing along with to help your children develop their listening skills.
I CAN
The I CAN website has some great activity ideas to help young children develop their speech, language and communication skills. The ideas have been suggested by Speech and Language therapists and involve learning through play.
The website will continue to add resources over the coming weeks to help support parents/ carers and their children.
You can either choose activities for younger children or for primary aged children. Simply click on the link and then use the arrow keys to scroll through the activities.
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